This mesmerizing photograph was captured by Chet Waggoner on March 17. "This is approximately 4-5 days before the sun vanishes below the horizon for 6 months," he tells io9.

Waggoner is a Satellite Communications Engineer for the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where he operates and maintains the satellite systems that provide Internet and phone service to him and the roughly 40 other people currently stationed there. "I arrived here last November," Waggoner tells io9, "and will be here through November 2014."